Name the tense!
Greenwich is in London
Simple Present
Librairie (French)
Bookshop
Teaching material taken from a real life source (e.g. newspaper article, TV or radio programme)
Authentic Material
By
preposition
The vocabulary learning that emerges from the text may be of more value than the vocabulary teaching that leads into the text.
Thornbury!
I'm reading Great Expectations at the moment.
Present continuous
Wif (Old English)
Woman
The technique of drawing information from the learners rather than providing it to them directly.
Eliciting
successfully
Adverb
One of the main reasons for including speaking activities in language lessons is to help students develop habits of rapid language processing in English’
Harmer!
It's been raining all day
Present Perfect Continuous
Embarazada (Spanish)
Pregnant
A combination of two or more words which frequently occur together.
Collocation
the
Article
Without opportunities to re-use and interconnect the language they have studied, learners’ knowledge about language may never become the ability to use it.
Kerr!
She had met him before.
Past perfect
Gift (German)
Poison
A communicative task where learners possess different, incomplete information and must interact—asking questions, negotiating meaning, and sharing knowledge—to bridge the gap and complete the task
Information Gap
Must
modal verb
“…without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed”
Wilkins!
If it hadn't been for the two men who rescued me, I would probably have drowned.
Third Conditional
Host (Czech)
Guest
A feedback technique where a teacher corrects a learner's erroneous utterance or text by repeating it back in a natural, native-like manner without drawing direct attention to the error.
Reformulation
Who, which, that
Relative pronoun
Rather than the learning purpose determining the technology, it’s the technological tail that seems to wag the pedagogical dog. What theories of learning underpin the claims being made for educational technology? We deserve to know!
THORNBURY!